Eva Marcille

I’ve long believed that braided hairstyles are the best style to wear for your last trimester of pregnancy leading up to labor and delivery and shortly thereafter.

Why? The style requires very little maintenance after installed and can be kept in for a longer while. Once a silk head wrap is worn at night, the style remains neat without having to be loosened, washed and re-braided daily.

That’s great when you’re too busy nesting, adjusting to the aches and pains of preparing for birth and thereafter when your time is consumed with caring for your newborn.

Several of the celeb women we follow who are currently pregnant have been wearing braided protective style of late: Tia Mowryand Toya Wrightare going with cornrows and Eva Marcilleis rocking faux locs.

Eva Marcille keeps the exciting news coming!E! News can confirm the Real Housewives of Atlanta star is pregnant and expecting her second child—a baby boy! She’s already a mama to her 3-year-old daughter, Marley Rae, with her ex Kevin McCall, but the baby will mark her first with boyfriend Michael Sterling.

Marcille took to Instagram to share the exciting news alongside a photo of Marley and Michael, writing, “We’re Expecting!!!!! 5 months in and we couldn’t be more excited!!! @miketsterling gets a mini me and #Marley gets a sidekick.”

The America’s Next Top Model Cycle 3 winner also spoke to People about the news.

“I said, ‘Marley, would you like to have a little brother or sister?’ And she said, ‘Yes, Mom, but you know what? Maybe a baby brother. Make it a brother,'” Marcille recalled of her daughter’s comments. “I thought that was adorable, but at the time, I had no idea what I was having, so my fear [about] this extremely expressive and outgoing young girl [was] if this baby came out to be a little girl, that might not be a great situation for Marley.”

She continued, “However, I found out soon after that I was having a boy, and I felt like she willed it in her favor. I’m beyond elated to be having a boy.”

So exciting! Congratulations to the growing family.This article originally appeard on E! Online and has been reposted with permission.

I know, I know. Halloween was days ago and I am still posting costume faves! This is my last post, I promise and this post includes my fave kids and celeb kids I spotted while scrolling through Instagram and social media!

Tonight, we’ve reached a tipping point in America as several Dallas police officers were killed during a rally to protest recent police shootings. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of those men and women who put their lives at risk daily to protect and serve.

Here is a rundown of what sparked the rally followed by solidarity messages from celeb women we’ve featured on the blog:

Within 48 hours, two black men in “concealed weapon license to carry” states exercising their rights to have guns in their pockets were nonetheless shot and killed by police officers. Both killings, one execution style and the other in front of a 4-year old child during a routine traffic stop, has sparked outrage.

Alton Sterling was selling CDs outside of a grocery store in a high crime neighborhood and exercising his Second Amendment rights as an American, carried a weapon to protect himself. Someone reported to the police that Sterling had it out waving at people and after scuffle with the officers who arrived at the scene and eventually took Sterling down, another took out his revolver and emptied a couple of rounds into Sterling’s body before falling off the man’s chest and shooting a few more shots. The store owner and another eyewitness filmed the shootings on their smartphones and circulated it on social media. The outrage has been swift.

That same night, another man, Philando Castile, was driving with his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds and her 4-year old daughter in the backseat when he was pulled over for a busted tail light. Diamond turned on her Facebook Live and shared the incident as it happened with her followers on the social media site. The world was witness to the moments immediately after one officer shot him as he reached into his pocket to pull out his driver’s license as asked to do so by the officer, per Reynold’s account. The officer can be overheard on the video saying “ignorance”.

As with other past police killings of unarmed black men and boys, many parents have been shaken by the incident especially parents of young black boys. In social media, many have expressed fear that when their children grow up, they will be seen as menacing threats simply for being in the skin they were born in and could be the next hashtag.

I know personally, I’ve talked to my kids again as my husband and I do periodically throughout their lives to make sure they are aware what they need to do to escape a possible police encounter alive. My father in law is a retired veteran police detective and my husband’s uncle was a police officer. We fear for the lives of blue and believe Blue Lives Matter as well, but at the same time, we are frightened by the pattern of brutality among some officers.

What are some of the celebrity mothers we’ve profiled here on Bellyitch are up to these days? A good place to keep track of their ups and downs and projects is by checking in on them in Instagram where they freely share pics and other updates like Eva Marcille above who recently won a battle with her ex Kevin McCall over their 1-year old adorable daughter Marley. Here she is looking effortlessly chic while driving in her ride somewhere.

What else? We stalkfollow them so you don’t have to!

Gwen Stefani recently visited Qatar

Beyonce too is/was in Asia & took some time off to hit her computer and look stylish while doing so.

On this lazy hazy Sunday, why not check out what your fave preggers celeb were up to by gawking some of the photos they’ve shared in social media and recently.

We stalk them so you don’t have to, like Ciara who was in New York city with her new baby Zahir who she gave birth to this past May.

And Vanessa Carleton taking a selfie of her bump. “Is it still a selfie if it’s just an enormous soft egg with a chick that used to be your stomach?” she asked on Instagram.

Alicia Keys promoting her new song by creating a viral hashtag and encouraging her celeb friends and others to tell the world why they are here with the hashtag #WeAreHere. “I am here for you!! What you are here for? Tell me & pass it on… My love @THEREALSWIZZZ, What are you here for? ;-),” she captioned this Twitter pic.

Zoe Saldana said Jason Wu “killed” his presentation at the Hugo Boss runway show last week.

And Eva Marcille who was showing off pics of her daughter Marley.

And Jenni “JWoww” Farley’s fiance Roger Matthews fell asleep feeding their new daughter, Meilani who they welcomed this July.

Vanessa Simmons had her daughter Ava on the runway supporting her sister Angela Simmons’ New York Fashion Week runway show.

Celebrating her husband Swizz Beatz‘ birthday, Alicia Keys captioned this Twitter share”You make me happier than I have ever been in my LIFE!!! May this year continue to be full of all the things that matter!! I wish you only happiness and meaning and I promise to be the one that brings it to you everyday!!! Happy Birthday my love @therealswizzz!!!! The most magnificent man I know!! To many many many more!!!”

Evelyn Lozada got some pampering and TLC recently and shared the final look on Instagram.

Tamar Braxton-Herbert, Amber Rose, Eva Marcille, Apryl Jones and Gugu Mbatha-Raw all wore White to the 2014 BET Awards at the Nokia Theater at LA LIVE in Los Angeles, California on June 29, 2014.

UPDATED: It seemed like WHITE was the color of the evening on Sunday night’s 2014 BET Awards red carpet. Several of our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums and other celebs went with the summer shade while working the arrivals to the annual show at the Nokia Theater at LA LIVE in Los Angeles, California.

We spotted several brand new moms including Kerry Washington and Eva Marcille, both who welcomed their first child, respectively this year. Here is what they and other celeb moms who we have covered in the past looked like and who they wore:

Kerry Washington, who welcomed a daughter, Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha with husband Nnamdi Asomugha on April 21 wore the Dolce and Gabbana strapless cotton silk brocade dress (GET IT HERE) accented with a green clutch and Casadei pumps in Summer white.

Amber Rose showed off her tiny waist cinching it with a gold colored belt around the middle of her long sleeved V-neck dress. She barely smiled because her mind was on son Sebastian who she cut out on the award show mid-broadcast to go home and see. Awwww! That’s realness right there.

Omarion is expecting with his girlfriend Apryl Jones who also did white and long fishtail train similar to the sheer style she wore for her coral-themed baby shower last week.

Tamar Braxton-Herbert, who had a fainting spell while performing last week, went va-va-voom in a white jersey SENCouture dress though she looked to need a little more support to really polish off the look which she accentuated with gold clutch and jewels and Christian Louboutin pumps.

Holly Robinson-Peete showed off one of her best assets: her strong shoulders in a peach one shoulder dress.

Tamera Mowry-Housley is gorge in a fitted Yigal Azrouël python leather zip up mini dress. Not seen in this pic are her fabSaint Laurent Snake Embossed Silver and Black Cap Toe Pumps.

Interesting mesh and satin dress and strappy wrapped pumps there Kyla Pratt. The mom to 3 1/2 year old Lyric Kai Kilpatrick and another daughter born last August with beau Danny Kilpatrick and actress was giving “tude” and Face on the red carpet. Love the confidence.

Congratulations to America’s Top Model Cyle 3 Winner model Eva Marcille on the birth of her daughter, Marley, today, Friday, January 31.

Her beau, producer Kevin McCall shared the above photo on his Instagram account with the caption:

“Wow she has her mother’s eyes,” McCall wrote “…Never knew I could fall in love again @EvaMarcille #prouddad.”

So Sweet. This is the first child for the actress, model and producer who was originally known as Eva Pigford, and McCall.

She announced the news of the pregnancy this past August. At an event a month later, the couple shared that they planned a rock-star nursery for the baby which gave a hint into what her name would be. At that event, when asked what type of mom she’d be, Marcille said “very overprotective but fashionable.”

Want to know what’s up with some of the preggers celeb ladies we’re following?

You can find the answer in their social media accounts, in particular, Instagram. They’re great about updating their lives on these great new mediums that allow celebs to directly share and interact with their fans, followers and the media.

There we spotted a bare belly photo ofAmerica’s Top Model’s Eva Marcille that her beau Kevin McCall shared on his page. The model and actress is expecting the couple’s first child any day now, he wrote.

Meanwhile, reality TV star Kendra Wilkinson Baskett was hanging out with some pretty tall friends lately who towered the petite mom-to-be expecting her second kid with hubby, former NFL player Hank Baskett. The couple are parents to 4-year old Hank Jr.

Finally, The Hillsalum and shoe designer Kristin Cavallari just finished shooting the cover photo for the April/May edition of Fit Magazine, she disclosed in a caption to this photo above.

The day before, she was showing off her pregnant fit form in a selfie she took at the gym. Cavallari and her husband Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler are expecting their second kid. They are parents to 1-year old Camden.